06-13-2010, 04:03 PM
Pete "Sumpter250" --
Now it's my turn to wear the :oops: :oops: ... it's been so long since that weekend, I have gotten the two "B-tines" mixed up! I haven't been on anything as large as the Enchantress since '76! My apologies! It is, in fact, a Brigantine, having only two masts.
Interesting that you posted that photo ... I'm wondering if it was taken by one of my two old Best Army Buddies, M. Madigan, Marine Photographer, out of Shoreham, L.I., NY? You see, I have almost the same photograph hanging on my office wall ... I took it out of the frame to eliminate the glare from the glass ...
And now I must apologize to all for the temporary hijacking of a thread on an odd bridge with a large photo of a sailing ship!
(BTW, I found some distressing information on her from The Milwaukee Journal - Dec. 10, 1977 ... <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1499&dat=19771210&id=1m4aAAAAIBAJ&sjid=fikEAAAAIBAJ&pg=3781,7658866">http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1 ... 81,7658866</a><!-- m -->)
Now it's my turn to wear the :oops: :oops: ... it's been so long since that weekend, I have gotten the two "B-tines" mixed up! I haven't been on anything as large as the Enchantress since '76! My apologies! It is, in fact, a Brigantine, having only two masts.
Interesting that you posted that photo ... I'm wondering if it was taken by one of my two old Best Army Buddies, M. Madigan, Marine Photographer, out of Shoreham, L.I., NY? You see, I have almost the same photograph hanging on my office wall ... I took it out of the frame to eliminate the glare from the glass ...
And now I must apologize to all for the temporary hijacking of a thread on an odd bridge with a large photo of a sailing ship!
(BTW, I found some distressing information on her from The Milwaukee Journal - Dec. 10, 1977 ... <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1499&dat=19771210&id=1m4aAAAAIBAJ&sjid=fikEAAAAIBAJ&pg=3781,7658866">http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1 ... 81,7658866</a><!-- m -->)
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Lehigh Susquehanna & WesternÂ
"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves." ~~Abraham Lincoln
Lehigh Susquehanna & WesternÂ
"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves." ~~Abraham Lincoln